Monthly Archives: October 2015

Editors hardly find time to go through your entire manuscript, and so it is the synopsis that they want to go through. Therefore, you have to be focused when writing the synopsis and punch in the crucial points to make it ideal for describing the manuscript.

Remember a successful synopsis is well-defined by its structured, surprise-free and succinct content. Long, meandering sentences won’t justify your writing. First off, you have to be well aware of your manuscript. Though, you may feel that the job is quite easy but you will be surprised to know how easy it is to forget the subtle details of what you have written since you have been working on it since a long time. Therefore, before you start jotting down the synopsis you need to go through the entire manuscript once again and be sure that you know all the information intimately.

Draft a summary first. Once you are confident about the storyline, characters and language; you can go well about it. A well-written synopsis should not be more than 300 words. Therefore, after finishing writing the draft, re-check it and edit the content to abridge it. Since 300 words is too short to describe a 1,00, 000 words manuscript you have to choose words wisely and trickily put in the information and essence of the matter in a way to convince readers. The advice is to avoid being too much descriptive, instead, be brief and to the point.

Remember, drafting, editing and then finalizing your summary play the major steps in preparing a validated summary for an unpublished manuscript. The crucial advice is to ask a professional to read your synopsis before it is being submitted. An objective opinion plays the best for your manuscript.